Wednesday, 20 March 2013

A paralell between an adaptive architecture and a compact lite weight stool construction. Nature as inspiration

One shot stool by Materialise, Belgium


The twist action allows enabled the elegant transformable nature. Opening and closing as a sea coral or flowering plant in the garden adapts to the night and day natural phenomenon.

LAVA laboratory for visionary architecture
Headed by Chris Bosse
Current project - the construction of a sustainable city in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Masdar city
Nature inspired flowers open during the day to collect sunlight on the solar petals and shade inhabitants below. Rain water runs off the leave like forms, down the steam to an under ground water storage. At nite the petal buds close up, to allow a view of the open star lite sky above.



Technical drawings illustrating the flower Inspired device in detail.

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